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Earth Changes 2003 Sunspots, Weather, Flood, & Droughts INTRODUCTION | HOW TO USE PLANETARY ALIGNMENTS TO PREDICT SUNSPOTS & THE WEATHER THE WEATHER FOR 2003 | WINTER | SPRING | SUMMER | FALL | WINTER 2004 SUNSPOT CHART FOR THE 20TH CENTURY ALMANAC CALENDAR |
Introduction To Sunspots, Weather Extremes, Droughts & Floods Do Sunspots affect the weather and all that lives on the Earth? Indeed, sunspots do and researchers have been proving it for at least the last hundred years. How do they affect the weather? High numbers of sunspots create a huge influx of ionic energy which flows into the Earth’s atmosphere. The higher the count, the greater the influx, the more the Earth’s atmosphere is energized. This new energy quickly overwhelms normal weather patterns. The weather becomes chaotic and extreme. Some areas dry up, others flood, and huge windy storm fronts roll across the continents. . It is that simple. The lower the sunspot counts, the milder the weather becomes. It is also that simple When the ionic energy is high, the Earth’s atmosphere is greatly energized causing all normal weather patterns to expand in size, seek higher latitudes, pick up and carry more moisture, and move more rapidly at higher elevations. This increases flooding, for instance, in Canada and Northern Europe, while leaving Arizona, East Africa, and the Indus River Valley System high and dry in a drought. This pattern set in during 1999 at the beginning of the current peak in sunspot activity, which is known as Solar Sunspot Cycle 23 Peak. Typically, a Sunspot Peak averages 100 plus sunspots each month will last about 40 to 48 months. True to form, the sunspot counts and ionic energy has stayed at a high level above 100 for almost every month until December 2002. Accordingly, the weather patterns became progressively worse during 2000 and 2001 to create a lengthy dry period in the lower latitudes and lots of flooding each year in the high latitudes. For almost all of 2002, this pattern became even worse and prevailed over all other normal seasonal patterns. Among many other impacts, the high sunspot peak caused severe drought in the American Southwest, portions of Australia, East Africa, India and Pakistan, and other areas. Both farmers and natural eco-systems have been badly damaged around the world as a result and these failures have contributed to the depth and breadth of the world wide recession which is currently underway. One of the more interesting characteristics of sunspots and the storms on the sun is their connection to planetary alignments. As two or more planets align together to form a straight line with the Sun on one end and the planets forming up a straight line on the same degree on the same side of the sun radiating from its center, sunspot counts increase radically. Magnetic storms form up, vast explosions can form, coronal mass ejections are sometimes hurled straight at the aligned planets at a million or more miles per second, and the solar wind becomes a raging, stormy torrent of ionic particles and magnetic energy which radically stimulates the magnetosphere and atmosphere of a planet like Earth. If the number of sunspots is already high, in the range of 150, for example, many planetary alignments will cause the sunspot counts to suddenly rise, in as little as two or three days, up to 250 or even 350. This increases the ionic influx to the Earth to prodigious levels and the Earth’s weather, within about 10 days, suddenly begins to produce freak extreme storms on top of already exceptionally strong chaotic patterns. The extremes created this past 40 months by the high sunspot counts of Sunspot Cycle 23 have probably also caused humans to overestimate the climate change trends, global warming trends, and various change in the solar system. During the next several years, as the sunspot counts drop radically down to very close to zero, all of these trends will seem to reverse themselves and many environmentalists will be wondering what happened to global warming. From this we can see how to predict the long periods of drought as well as the time periods for mild weather and stormy weather patterns. It is as simple as calculating the Solar Sunspot Cycles and the planetary alignments. How To Use Planetary Alignments For Sunspot & Weather Predictions To begin with, please seperate the topic of planetary alignments from pop astrology. This calendar and the predictions made on it are not astrology. Astrology is an entirely different animal. The planetary alignments are a line up of two or more planents on the same side of the sun, arranged on the same degree radiating out from the center of the sun. If you could look down on the sun and the rings of planets which circle around its midsection, let's say from about 1 billion miles over the top of the sun, you would see something like this:
source: Home Planet Software by John Walker The Sun of course is in the center and each of the nine planets are circling around the Sun in a counter clockwise direction. On this chart you can see exactly one alignment between the Sun in the middle, Mercury on the first ring, and Earth on the third ring. The three planets form a line all on the same side of the Sun on the same degree radiating out from the center of the Sun. Why is this important? When the planets line up, the number of sunspots increases, often times by huge amounts. And the more sunspots, the more ionic energy hits the Earth (protons and electrons from hydrogen atoms), and the more the Sun's magnetic storms disturb communications. Usually, within two to four days of a sudden increase in the number of sunspots, the weather patterns in many areas of the Earth, especially in the temperate zones, get a sudden increase in energy, which generally makes small storms into bad storms. The weather gets suddenly chaotic and unpredictable and often combines in way to produce extreme weather patterns. For about seven years out of eleven, the Sun is a lot less active in producing sunspots. Even during this time, small flare-ups often occur to reflect how the planets line up. But during this time, which is the Sunspot Cycle Minimum, the effects of the sunspots are usually not very noticable. But for about four years out of every eleven years, during the Sunspot Cycle Peak, sunspot numbers can climb up and stay above 100, with peak counts in the range of 200 to 300. During the past 40 months, we have had average counts of Sunspots above 100 during most months, with occassional peaks above 300, and many peaks above 200. These extreme peaks were formed by planetary alignments and these peaks produced the record breaking weather extremes and chaotic climate patterns which have gone into the record books during the past three plus years. On January 1, 2003, the sunspot count was about 45. On January 11, 2003, the date of the chart above which shows the alignment of Mercury with Earth, the sunspot count had risen spectacularly to slightly over 235 (see the chart below). As these sunspots shot up in numbers, Northern Europe got hit with another major round of winter storms and it rained in many portions of Arizona which has had a particularly bad drought. Here is a chart of late December 2002 and early 2003: (the red line is the sunspot number and the black line is the radio flux line)
from the Solar Terrestrial Activity Report by Jan Alvestad The second peak from the right, for December 18 , was almost dead on the alignment of Earth with Saturn on December 16th (many of the sunspot peaks occur a day or so after the alignment forms up) . This huge output of ionic energy from the sun, which can be seen as like the huge wave in the chart, came into the Earth's space and charged up its atmosphere with enough energy to add great punch to the terrific storms which then piled almost immediately into both North America and Northern Europe. The weathermen do not yet take planets and sunspots into account to predict the weather, which is one of the reasons why they are often dead wrong and a day late. You can take these into account quite easily by using the Earth Changes Calendar. All the planet alignments are plotted out and the danger zone for extreme whether is shown in red following the alignment dates. Nearly every month has a window of time which is marked in red and some months can be seen to have major storm potential nearly half the time. These "Solar Windows", which are painted in red on the calendar, typically are for about a week and they follow two days after a planetary alignment. Since these "Solar Windows" are the times when Earth's weather is most likely to be chaotic, extreme, and thus dangerous, PLAN NOT TO DO SOMETHING DURING THOSE WINDOWS, especially if you want to count on good weather. If the weather is extreme enough to produce floods, the floods are likely to be experienced about 10 to 14 days after the planetary alignment. Please note these are approximate figures, rules of thumb as it were, based on spending the last two years monitoring the correlation of these events and many others as time permitted. The relationships are real but there is considerable variation in exact timing and magnitudes and not all of the weather and alignments were studied. Thus these approximations do not reflect a fully systematic approach. To get truly scientific numbers, one would need a team of people constructing databases on large computers to encompass data about the entire Earth as a complete system. Like the weathermen, most climate experts and many astrophysicists fail to take the Solar Sunspot Cycles into account when they study trends. Accordingly, some of the most recent data (the last few years) about Global Warming are overly alarmist. When the ionic influx into the Earth returns to lower levels during the next few years, the weather trends and climste patterns will revert to look more like they did during the mid 1990's. The same is true with data which has surfaced the past year of so from astrophysicists which indicate that profound changes are occuring in the various planets, especially magnetic shifts and increases in their atmosphere. Some cosmologists have taken these findings to speculate or claim that the entire Solar System is going through a profound cosmic shift. Some have speculated that a new zone of space has been entered and a few people have connected this to the prophetic traditions of the Semites or the Mayans. Unfortunately for these notions, it is definitely most likely that all of these shifts are directly caused by the huge quantity of ionic wind which is given off by the Sun during its Sunspot Cycle Peak. We are currently about 40 months (as of January 1, 2003) into the peak blow-off period of Solar Cycle 23. This blow-off of ions is almost certainly more than sufficient to surround the entire Solar System with enough ionic energy to blow off any influences which are floating in the cosmic dust. This can be thought of as a huge Solar Shield which can easily ward off things like so-called "photon belts". It is highly probable that changes in the atmospheres of the planets are only being noticed at this time because of the vast expansion in monitoring of the solar system and data collection from satellites which NASA and other agencies created during the past ten years. If so, these changes will dissappear by 2006 or 2007 and when they do, you will know it was Solar Cycle 23. If the changes do not dissappear, you will know that the cosmologists may be onto to something and you had better do some more reading. But wait till then before you bother. Sunspot & Weather Predictions For 2003 Predicting the Sunspot Cycles precisely is not an easy assignment. Sunspot Cycles are highly variable in both magnitude and duration. The cycle is said to last 11.5 years but some have been known to last as little as seven years and others as long as 13 years. Their peak periods, which create the long droughts, are equally variable. Some last as little as 36 months, others a good 48 months. Apparently, this Sunspot Cycle 23 is a modest cycle as cycles go. Its average peak size has been smaller than the peaks of the last two cycles in previous decades. Most likely its duration will not be as long as 48 months and indeed there is good indication now that the peak of this one ended in approximately December 2002 after a run of 40 months. For the first time since 1999, the sunspot daily count dropped to 65 on New Year’s Eve. By the end of 2003, the monthly average peak may be down to as low as 50 on a consistent basis, with occasional peaks caused by planetary alignments. This means, more probably than not, that many a drought pattern in various locales should now begin to break up during 2003, but it will not necessarily be fully broken for many areas until 2004. Those areas which depend upon summer monsoons will continue to have their normal rain blocked by several strong planetary alignments which send sunspot counts skyrocketing for several periods during this year. Drought areas will get more rain than last year, but not enough to be normal. Many large, diverse eco-systems will continue to suffer and many farmers will still not be able to farm. The planetary alignments are the easiest assignment. Based on observations of the output of the Sun during the various planetary alignments of the past two years, the designations of Mild, Strong, and Exceptionally Strong have been assigned to the various planetary alignments of 2003. Some of these designations for the planets out beyond Mars might jump a category, up or down, but not by more. The inner planets create the strongest alignments and the sunspots these raise up out of the sun will be numerous enough to provide a strong impact on the Earth’s weather. From looking at last year’s alignments, it is certain that the multiple alignments (involving three or more planets) will be Exceptionally Strong Sunspot Windows. During the Exceptionally Strong Sunspot Windows, the sunspot numbers may typically rise up above 200 and stay on a high plateau for several days, like they did during 2001/2002, long enough to push enough energy into the Earth’s atmosphere to alter its weather patterns in profound ways for two to three weeks. If the peak spikes of ionic energy from these alignments match those in 2002, several major storm fronts will rise up out of the oceans and push across the continents every few days for a period of at least two weeks. This may in some places take away normal rainfall and in other places dump substantially more rain than normal. Fortunately, however, as of February 5th 2003, it has become fairly clear that Sunspot Cycle 23 is breaking up rapidly. Rather than creating a huge increase in sunspot numbers and bad weather for the Earth | Jupiter alignmment on February 1, the sunpot count as a paltry 77. Accordingly, most of the planetary alignments during 2003 may produce far less effects than they did during 2002, thus giving us weather substantially more modest than last year's huge storms. The Sunspot Windows provide a reasonably good estimate, within a week or two, of when bad or good weather is most likely to be encountered. However, given the immense complexity of the Earth’s atmosphere, there is no good way to accurately predict exactly when, where, and how much these effects will effect any particular local area. Even so, the Sunspot Windows can help you avoid planning your wedding or annual vacation, for the very worst possible times when extreme storms are most likely. Farmer’s take note, these Windows may help avoid planting at the wrong times and may motivate you to hasten your harvesting if the Windows portend a sudden change in the weather. Looking at the year 2003 as a whole After a first two weeks of exceptionally heavy weather extremes, the weather will become milder until the last week of January. Strong planetary alignments on January 22 and February 2 will induce a succession of heavy storm fronts which rise out of the oceans and these will begin to roll across the continents through to about February 15, giving Winter great severity in temperature and snow fall in the northern latitudes while giving summer great extremes in the southerly latitudes. Forget about Groundhog day. A week or two of milder weather during the last part of February may be interrupted about the first of March for about two weeks as sunspot numbers soar during another major planetary alignment. This bad weather period is likely to be short and relatively mild, compared to the extremes of 2002. About the ides of March, weather will begin to return to normal and become calm and pleasant by the end of the month. A pleasant early Spring will endure to mid-April but don’t be lulled by this lull in the weather. Late April and May will bring some chaos and extemes. As several planetary alignments come and go, a succession of ocean storm fronts will roll across the continents for five to eight weeks. This may give rise to a few extremes in the weather patterns and some flooding is likely. April 20th may be very close to the very worst moment of the year for weather. After about the first week of June, the weather should become mild to produce a lovely early summer. The summer solstice should be gorgeous. But another strong alignment on June 30 with turn the first two weeks of July into a petulant time. Summer Monsoon may be cancelled in many areas for the first two weeks, while the sunspots drive the summer rain (or winter rain in the Southern Hemisphere) far to the North and South for a brief period of time. August will turn increasingly stormy and petulant as the Earth | Mars alignment forms up and by the end of August, weathers patterns will produce extreme storms in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. Chaos and extremes will rule through to the end of September but these patterns should be milder than the extremes of 2002. In early October the summer’s extremes will give way to another period of mild weather. Fall should remain beautiful though to the end of November. But after the earthquake activity of the November 23 New Moon, several strong planetary alignments will bring a sudden deep return to the blustery weather of late August and early September. In the North it will be winter knocking early on every one’s door. Early snowfalls will paralyze many areas and, despite a let up in mid-December, Christmas will be much whiter than normal. In the Southern Hemisphere, it will seem as if the drought has returned. The heat waves will parch the land for nearly two months before the drought pattern finally ends and the high sunspot counts of Solar Cycle 23 finally dissolves to set the stage for recovery in 2004 and 2005. The better part of January will remain much as the last two stormy weeks of December. By the third week, however, winter will loosen its grip until the last week of February. But once again, Groundhog Day will be a lie. Another intense round of winter weather will begin in late February and last until the Spring Equinox. |
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